No matter what tools are used, you can’t compare a project that lol a year or more to one that took only two weeks. But the AI tooling makes the two-week project possible, even though the quality will never match what you can get if you take more time. But in any case, the AI tools will improve how quickly you can get good results.

@@wilkesreid not so much, they are insanely talented enough to unfuck the bad ai composites from WDAI. They have an Xsens, and access to other grids for optical mocap. This is purely an ad for Autodesk, and its clear where exactly this tech starts and stops. Educational use only my friend.

Try ant cgi 😮

@sridharan5172 i already covered ant cgi rigging tutorial, that helped me lot I like more to improve, like new simplified methods

@@helmetlaws1876 then try procedural rigging with python bro the course is available on pluralsight

For what? Mediocre animation? Basic rigging? Unsatisfying timelines? Bad graph editor? You convinced me!

@@pixbaddy Look up (Embark Asset Processor); they have replaced most Autodesk tools with a Blender-Houdini mix. This is similar to my current workflow. They are the developers of The Finals and Arc Raiders. They were the Battlefield 1 / Battlefront 1/2 team. I'd give Blender a fair shake in terms of modeling, sculpting, and asset cleanup. It's an amazing tool that rivals most paid software on its own merit. The only thing I must say is animation still isn't the best, though it isn't the worst, but you can't beat the price of free and, more importantly, no license server.

Not at the moment.

Behind Blender? Blender has a long way to go to get close to Maya. And Houdini as good as it is its still mainly at the front when it comes to simulations, VFX, procedural stuff. Animation, rigging, modeling and some other stuff are not its main domain.

@hound_of_justice yep Maya I think today is behind blender. Companies don't change to blender or Houdini since they already have pipelines around Maya. But Houdini is a whole pipeline! No need for programers is amazing... But hard to learn and master

@ The biggest advantages Blender has over Maya are sculpting, geonodes and non destructive modeling. Generally tho Maya has the edge and in animation, rigging, grooming and simulations for example Maya obliterates Blender and has a more straightforward workflow. Houdini is amazing btw but its not the best for everything, VFX is its main domain, not animation and rigging, not modeling in general, not texturing and so on.

@hound_of_justice Maya have. Idea and. On destructive as well. Is more advanced but sure it does have nodes as well.

@@hound_of_justiceI would say Blender has an advantage just in modeling, thanks to the shortcuts and how it is fast to use them compared to gizmos and look dev workflow and the fact that you can do a complete pipeline in one program (not as advanced as a real industry pipeline though, because it’s not the best at everything) But other than that, I don’t see any other advantage.

you can Do same thing with OverMorpher From Kinematic lab .

Max will get the AI for modeling, allegedly the 3D mesh generator.

@@hound_of_justice Many of the modeling techniques developed in 3ds max have recently been transferred to maya. However, 3ds max has not received any of them.